What should I get just for transferring 500 cds?
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500 CD's averaging 15 tracks per CD is a total of 7500 tracks. The iPod Touch 32 gig holds approximately 7,000 songs. A 40GB MP3 player will hold approximately 10,000 songs, but they are hard drive based and aren't designed for rough usage. 40 GB hard drive players are pretty hard to find these days so she might have to sacrifice some songs. She most likely doesn't actually listen to 500 CD's on a regular basis and you can always set iTunes to auto-rotate the songs for for fresh content. An alternative to the iPod Touch is the iPod Classic which packs 160 GB (around 40.000 songs) of storage. They are but around $250. The iPod Touch is also available in 64GB for a higher cost (around $300). An alternative to those two iPods is the Zune HD which packs 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes as well. These are considerably cheaper than the iPod equivilent. They also offered a 120 GB Zune (non-HD) but the price will vary as they are no longer manufactured. Sony also makes highly-regarded MP3 players that are comparable to MS and Apple. Besides These three companies, I can't really recommend buying anything else. I've owned all different types of MP3 players from Creative, Toshiba, Samsung, Sandisk, and the MS Zune but none of them come close to the tight integration that iTunes and iPod have. Every time I hit the sync button I'm confident the iPod will have exactly the songs I want on it. With Windows Media Player or the Zune software, a lot of the time it will end up partially syncing and some songs will duplicate. Album art is also a nightmare on these. As much as I don't like Apple's business model, their software and hardware are pretty hard to beat.
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For pictures, I use Verbatim CD-R discs without any fuss. They transfer directly from my Canon camera without any drama. I'm sure you'll get a more complete better answer from a more knowledgeable computer user
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Your problem is the booklets. The capacity, as stated, is CDs ONLY. You'll wind up having less capacity because of that... relative to the various sizes of the booklets you put in; i.e. some thick, some thin.
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Not sure about color but you want the fastest RPM's 7200 or more drive possible for large file transfers. If you have lots of files you may want ot consider high storage deives that offer up to 5-6 TB per device. I have two of these 3TB drives in by NAS in a raid 1 configure and sore lots of multi media files about 50GB of video movies
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I had to buy an external hard drive with a CD/DVD, storage, and burn ability. I use the latest Word, Power point, and data program; they work very well and fast. I am very satisfied.
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It's not such a bad idea, but finding the right software to transfer your work can be irritating, that is if if you're not using an SD card. Pretty sure the system can only read up to 2GB as well, but files are generally not too big to worry about filling the card up anytime soon. Also, the files are of a format where you'll have to download a program to read them, and then re-save them in a format which is more pleasant for instance, .doc or .docx for windows. Any other questions let me know!
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Unless you need super fast access or archival protection for your collection I would use a mechanical HDD. The extra expense and smaller capacity of the SDD would be a limiting factor.
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I used a 1T that I already had; it was more than enough. The external HD depends on how much data you stored in it. 250 should be enough, in my opinion.
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I have to agree I have basic basic, and I have an external drive as well. Gets me where I am going and works I Have the CD DVD player, external and it does a decent job. You can go to best buy or even here at Amazon. a lot less desk clutter and having wireless, none of the giant cords.
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You only need to use the CD if you want to use their backup software -- for straight disk storage, you can just plug it in (with Windows XP, anyway).
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get a external hard drive and copy all you pictures movies data to the back up driveyou can only save data you cannot transfer programs you will need the cd or dvd toreinstall in the new system.
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You can use pretty much any USB external cd, DVD, or bluray burner or player. The drivers are usually preloaded so there should be no issues.
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Yes, you should be able to. Using the Apple USB Superdrive. I transferred about 40 music and photo CDs using this excellent drive. Very fast. Good luck.
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Regular and MP3. You can also use USB card. I didn`t try out how it works though. I just used it for regular CD
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Does anyone have any recommendations for purchasing an external CD/DVD drive? Will any one do?
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No... Bought a separate USB drive for CDs. Rarely if ever use it or need it.
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You should get the box, but if I were u I'd get the down load version, never lose your cd or cd key that way